There - fixed it!
Posted on 10/19/2013 5:04:45 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
In Utah’s Goblin Valley State Park, three men toppled a giant rock formation that’s 170 million years old in just 14 seconds...
...caught on a cell phone camera, and a lot of people are wondering what they were thinking. nbc's miguel almaguer sat down with the men involved and has our report from utah .
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
It had managed to stay up for tens of thousands of years, if not longer.
There - fixed it!
“The rock was unstable and would have fallen on its own in a short time.”
Well then you go and call the park management, and let them know that so they can handle it.
You dont just go and knock it over because you think it needs to tip. What if in their effort to show they know better, it slipped and crushed them?
“Typical conservationist’s wet dream.”
Do not confuse Liberal ENVIRONMENTALISM with CONSERVATION.
As an outdoor sportsman, fishing, hunting, I was raised by my father to be a true conservative of natural resources which is also one of the tenets of the BSA.
ENVIRONMENTALISM vs CONSERVATION
A LOOK AT TWO ROADS
By T. R. Mader, Research Director
In years past, Conservation, the wise use of natural renewable resources, was supported and understood by a majority of people. It was taken for granted that man, due to his ability to reason, had the power and right to improve, change and utilize the environment.
Irrigation ditches were built, diverting the natural flow of water to man-made ditches, thus making mountain streams live streams year around due to return flow. This enhanced the land for man and animal. Stock reservoirs and dams were built in the semiarid parts of the West allowing the land to support stock and wildlife which, in years past, supported few animals due to limited water.
Man continued to progress, and with that progression he learned new ways to better conserve and use nature. Land in eastern states was often left in a state of little use after coal mining. Learning from those mistakes, man came west to mine coal and now often reclaims the land better than it was in its natural state.
Logging, though never very pretty to look at, was found to be the best thing for nature’s forests. Instead of dying off of disease, insect infestation, fire and other common tree killers, wood could be harvested and utilized, thus making forests healthier and man had a natural resource to use.
Then along came Environmentalism, a view that nature and natural forces should be the dominating force of change, a concept that Nature is “god” and man no more or less than any other living creature in the natural flow of events. This new philosophy was based upon several tenets:
1. Nature was perfect until Man disfigured it.
2. Man invariably disrupts and wreaks havoc in the
environment.
3. The Natural Balance of Nature is the only way to go.
4. Man must reject all of modern technology and call for
a return to a simple, pastoral life free of fumes,
artificial chemicals, and any noise but the chirping
of birds and the croaking of frogs (Science News).
5. Animals have a right to live as much as man and
therefore man has no right to eradicate or control any living
creature.
Read at: http://www.aws.vcn.com/env.html
Good to know priorities of people.
Rock=lifeless
Its a**holes like you who are destroying or condoning the destruction of the natural beauty of our country. Enough people with your attitude and our parks and scenic wonders will be gone. A great example is Petrified Forest NP. The amount of petrified wood stolen from the park one piece at a time has significantly degraded the impressiveness of the park in my lifetime . But they are only rocks. Your attitude SUCKS. Take only pictures, leave only footprints.
well if a rock weighing thousands of pounds can be pushed over in 12 seconds it sounds like a safety issue to me
this is a bunch of crap trying to impugn the scouts and y’all should know it
Did they think they were Ghost Busters???
Sometimes a rock is just a rock...
(ducks...8^)
A rock sitting on another rock, now a rock sitting on another rock.....its a felony?
What a waist of tax payers money.
the government would want to start a program to maintain it and fund it for the next 170 million years....
BOY SCOUTS WATCH LEADERS GET THEIR ROCKS OFF More at 11...
There’s a lit of delicate artifacts in out state parks. Scouts have always been taught to respect that. This is vandalism. Why don’t we give them paint cans and teach them to tag ...its only paint right?
Mother Nature knocks down our stuff all the dang time.
I’ve even planted trees for her sake. And she blew some down.
The ones she knocked down with lightning took far fewer than 14 seconds. And her thunderous roar of approval topped even BSA leader StaPuft’s victory shout.
Mother Nature is SUCH a scout leader.
I’m pushing back. Bitch.
“BOY SCOUTS WATCH LEADERS GET THEIR ROCKS OFF More at 11...”
Film at 11.
Crust by about 12 or so.
Yeah well I’m pushing back on these fat ass thugs pretending to be scouts.
No one has, form what I have seen, said that that rock was a danger to climbers and site seers. Boy Scouts often clean up areas and do many projects to improve safety and enjoyment.
“Yeah well I’m pushing back on these fat ass thugs pretending to be scouts.”
Sounds good to me.
Push with your legs. Watch which way Fat Bastard rolls.
And get the vids.
I am a 65 year old Eagle Scout. My mom was my Cub Scout leader and my dad was my Boy Scout leader. When my own son was old enough, I was his scout leader and he is an Eagle Scout, as well. This was back in the day when being a Boy Scout and a Scout leader meant something. Nowadays, I am afraid the quality and character of the leadership has much to be desired in many cases.
These two yahoos are prime examples. The Dumb and Dumber label fits them perfectly. A real Scout leader would not have done what they did. They would have taught their scouts reverence and caution around these natural formations and not acted like imbeciles and knocked them over for “safety” reasons. That is bogus. I’m sure they came up with that excuse AFTER they were caught doing this. The idiots filmed this and posted it online? What further evidence, except the desecration act itself, do you need to know that these two guys are a couple of juvenile morons who are not real leaders but immature adults instead?
They should be kicked out of the Boy Scouts by the organization and punished by the law for this. There is no excuse for this kind behavior, especially from the leaders.
Having said all of this, I must state that I am extremely disappointed in the Boy Scouts of America for caving to the PC liberal crowd and allowing homosexuals into their membership. Next step will be to open up leadership to the gays. None of this is a good thing and they have ruined a well-respected, long-standing organization for our nations’ youth by their decision. I am ashamed by what they have done to a once great boys’ movement.
The fools should be made to put it back.
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